Economic exploitation of Cartagena de Indias beaches

The aim of the present article is to show the socioeconomics characterization of the population of stationary informal workers located in the Cartagena´s beaches and to determinate the influence of elements of institutional and cultural perception as the recognition of the competent authorities and...

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Autores principales: Yánez-Contreras, Martha, Ordoñez-Flórez, Alberto, Suárez-Avila, Luis
Formato: Revistas
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Cartagena 2009
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unicartagena.edu.co/index.php/panoramaeconomico/article/view/366
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Sumario:The aim of the present article is to show the socioeconomics characterization of the population of stationary informal workers located in the Cartagena´s beaches and to determinate the influence of elements of institutional and cultural perception as the recognition of the competent authorities and the development of mechanism of pseudo property on the practices of economic exploitations of this area. For that are used the results of a survey applied to the stationary informal seller, located in the beaches of Bocagrande and Laguito in Cartagena. Doing a design by quota, it was interviewed 85 stationary sellers, distributed in 25 fruits saleswoman, 30 carpers and 30 sellers in modules. For this sellers it was applied, as part of the information collection work, a form with a structure that wonders about economic aspects (income, invest, price), socials (education, health), culturals (conceptions and ideas about the job), generals (working day), and of institutional control (carnetization, uniform). The data was processed with the software SPSS 15.0, to generate the input tables and to relate the variables of interest. Finally, it was developed a study of the association between variables through the contingency analysis. The results show that the inadequate demand of the beaches is used by the seller as a strategy to increase their incomes. On the other hand, it is observed the development of privatization mechanisms of this area by the sellers with the major quantity of years exploiting it economically, who uses the instruments of institutional regulations to create entrance barriers of new competitors in the interest zones.Key Words: Public space, Beaches, Informal sellers, Economic exploitation.